Incredible Hulk Coaster

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Incredible Hulk
Incredible Hulk Coaster
Location	Islands of Adventure
Park Section	Marvel Super Hero Island
Type	Steel - Launched
Status	Open
Opened	May 28, 1999
Manufacturer	Bolliger & Mabillard
Designer	Werner Stengel
Model	Sitting Coaster
Lift/launch system	Drive tire launched lift hill
Height	110 feet (33.5 m)
Drop	105 feet (32 m)
Length	3,700 feet (1,127.8 m)
Max speed	67 mile per hour (107.8 km/h)
Inversions	7
Duration	2:15
Capacity	1920 riders per hour
Acceleration	0 − 40 mph in 2 seconds
Max G force	4
Height Restriction	54 inches (137.2 cm)
Incredible Hulk at RCDB
Pictures of Incredible Hulk at RCDB

The Incredible Hulk Coaster is a steel roller coaster located in Universal's Islands of Adventure in Orlando, Florida. It is named for the popular comic book superhero character, the Hulk. Voted the #1 roller coaster by Discovery Channel viewers in 1999, the roller coaster is unique because it features a launch lift hill as opposed to conventional chain lifts. This means the train accelerates to 40 mph (18 m/s) in a short time (approximately two seconds) before speeding through several inversions.

The Incredible Hulk is the only launched roller coaster ever produced by Bolliger & Mabillard. As a company, they are opposed to launched coasters because of perceived reliability problems, so they subcontracted the launch mechanism to another company.

The roller coaster was featured at the beginning of the film House on Haunted Hill.

1 The Ride
2 Criticism
3 See also
4 External link

[edit] The Ride

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

At the beginning of the ride, you are seen to be entering Project Gamma. You hear Bruce Banner's voice in the middle saying how he thought the calculations were perfect and this time they've gone wrong. At the end of his sentence, you are shot out within 2 seconds at 40 mph. You are then sent through a small twist and sent down a 105 foot drop and sent through 2 corkscrews. They then put you through an underground room full of mist, which you then shoot up again to another corkscrew. By now, your speed has reached close to 65-67 mph. Now you are put up another lift hill and slowed down at the top before being sent down another hill to a corkscrew. You are then riding sideways through a camera area and then to the rides closing.